Theme WAYWT - Flip a Brick
wrap up of the theme waywt from august 2023.
Our August Theme WAYWT was to take an old bricked fit and try to make a good fit out of it, whether it be with the same pieces or new versions. Here are the submissions to that theme. Captions are written by the original poster on our discord, names are Server nickname(@discordusername).
Smiles(@smiiles.)
The brick was when I was doing maximalism bad. I wanted my outfits to be loud (and I still do) but I leaned to hard on having lots of loud pieces, which just clashed and ruined the fit. Revisiting it, I smoothed out the color scheme to be very focused on earth tones, which helped integrate the shoes (as does the full break, reducing how loud they are) and jacket without overpowering or clashing. The pants were simplified because the camo jacket is the focal point of the fit. However the interesting shoes work with the cohesive color scheme without being distracting.
GSH(@bigelow_)
Brick pic is my first WAYWT I posted after getting back into MFA after a long break. It's not the worst fit I've ever posted - the idea is there, but there are definitely some issues - biggest ones being a dated trouser silhouette and lack of cohesion between the henley and the bottom half. I went back to my bedroom mirror for my flip, where I've updated the trouser silhouette, swapped the henley for a tucked OCBD, and finished it with some shell Aldens. I think the main thing I've learned is: big pant good.
charli sexcx (@sharloy)
I’m taking creative liberties on this one. I don’t own any of the pieces on the old one so I’m just gonna go with shirt showing under a knit sweater, jeans, and slightly dressy shoes. Left is a product of the time done badly. Right is a product of the time that may or may not be done ok.
mewball (@mewball)
6 years ago versus now. I don’t own anything like this crap anymore so I took the liberty of reinterpreting “jacket tee with jeans in boots”
artvandelayimporting(@artvandelayexporting)
here's my brick - my first post to mfa in november of last year (it made top of waywt which just goes to show how different the sub is from the disc). Early into exploring the 'aime leon dore at home' ivy/prep style I've been living in lately, I think the color scheme is there (and the varsity jacket is one of my fav pieces) but the attention to detail and piece selection/fit is lacking. Swapping the sl*m fit uniqlo chinos for my surplus fatigues really improves the silhouette imo. I also elected to swap the graphic t and cdg cons for an ocbd/fun tie + loafers to lean heavier into the ivy-ness of this.
Original Walter(@walter_crunkite)
OG fit could probably be improved with some small tweaks but I’ve always disliked it, the proportions and fit are all off and the cons look goofy with cropped pants. Hard to tell but I’m wearing cords in the original hence the wrinkly ones in the new fit. Probably wouldn’t wear these shoes with the new one but I wanted the continuity of white cons in both. Closest thing I have to a blue open collar flannel is this CPO jacket.
Weeg(@mrweeg)
So i picked this fit cause it holds a special place in my heart as the fit that got scraped off reddit and posted on 4chan to make fun of me. I honestly dont see it as too much of a brick but a big challenge of all this is picking a fit that is actually adaptable. I think the updated version fixes a lot of the issues in terms of silhouette and general interestingness of the fit. The shoes arent sticking out like a sore thumb anymore. The pants arent all carroty and cropped. I actually think the updated fit has some issues too though. Primarily just when would i actually wear this out in my daily life. Possibly a better update for daily wear would have been with a cream turtleneck or ditched the tie entirely.
dosius(@dosius)
I know this fit is dead simple, but I think it's a great example of how much small details matter. The first fit is from 2016 and really isn't me. I don't think super skinny silhouettes are very flattering on my body, and I think the chelseas have a really weird, pointy shape. Although the combination is fine on paper, it's an example of me not paying attention to fit and how much that changes the way an outfit actually looks. The new fit is a lot more my speed. The jeans fit better, and are more interesting (raw hem gang) and the t shirt is more flattering for my physique. I slapped my new cowboy boots in there (thanks to bishopcorrigan for the recommendation of Bushwick Beacon's Closet!) and I feel that the whole thing is a lot more coherent and has a bit less of Jonas Brother lite vibes.
De La Joel(@delajoel)
I picked this fit from 2019 because it was one of my first attempts at trying to incorporate sandals into “smarter” looks, something I’m still trying to perfect to this day.
Bond(@bondvivant)
Brick is from 2012. I was really into 'timeless style', which led to a whole era of unfortunate fits. For the update, I tried to keep many of the same elements, like the white shorts and the boat shoes. The colorful beaded necklace stands in for the tie. The seersucker jacket is actually the same one from the brick fit. It's part of a Ralph Lauren Rugby suit that I managed to hang on to all this time.
bchanx(@bchanx)
Instructions unclear, bricked it again
first fit was one of my earliest mfa waywt posts circa 2021. original fit was very bland, but i thought the double shirt layering was really interesting and wanted to give it another try. stuck with a monochrome palette (gray this time), but tweaked a few things:
more contrast via tones and textures (this didn’t really photograph well, big part of the problem)
contrasting collars (spread + band)
higher waisted pants for a more interesting visual break w/ the half tuck
looser pants for a more balanced silhouette
a tiny bit of accessorizing
still don't think the fit is too great, shirts are a bit boring and the overall tones and textures aren't interesting enough to make the monochrome work. i also don't wear/own many button ups, so i handicapped myself with very limited selections. lemme know if you have more ideas on how this fit could be improved!
rej(@_rej)
OG pic 5/30/2019 - deep in denial that I was still a Medium. Slim/tapered pants, snug denim jacket with a plain black tee 'for contrast'. too much going on, generally everything too snug. Updated pic lends itself probably more to a f/w fit - I don't own grey chinos anymore, so I've substituted wool trousers that I've dug out of the cool weather bins. Black cotton flannel and a looser fitting denim jacket up top. Overall following the trend of looser clothing than MFA past. white sneaks for a 1:1, chunky black loafers for how i'd probably choose to wear this these days.
digs(@digdug04)
Original brick is about two years old, I had just started getting into vintage and fashion and while i’m proud of myself for making an attempt, I had no real direction or idea of what look I wanted to achieve. I recall just kind of throwing this together and hoping it worked. The huaraches and yellow sock were a major miss on this one and the uniqlo linen pants didn’t really work with the more fall centric top half, also they were too slim.
In the re-try i switched out the huaraches for loafers and went with more classic white socks, i don’t have ecru pants anymore so i substituted for 40’s officer chino’s which I think balanced my bottom half a lot better. Same jacket used and substituted the untucked western shirt for a vintage chambray tucked in and wanted to add just a little flair so i opted for a neckerchief. I think this came out quite a but better although I think getting some wider fitting ecru pants would maybe work a little better. Also I don’t pose as weird anymore haha
meatwater(@audofwar)
Original brick from 2020. Just a boring silhouette and an early accessory/hat attempt. The pants are a bad fit and the raincoat thing is bleh. At this time I was trying to figure out how to dress casually (and it took me a while longer to get there).
The new fit has a lot more silhouette elements and interesting details within each piece. I find if each element is a little funky then adding weird things to a fit still feels cohesive instead of the classic "I paired my bold item with basics to make it wearable". I no longer have a blue sweater, so I'm using my distressed dickey thing as a blue element. I could have worn my white converse here since I still have them, but I didn't want to add another focal point to distract from the blue.
upsett1_spaghett1(@upsett1_spaghett1)
This brick is from 2021. I still love the Kapital bucket and OrSlow cords, but the shirt wasn’t working. Unfortunately I don’t have these Paraboot Michaels anymore since they were too small and I sold them, however I got these Paraboot Reims recently in a better size and they’re pretty damn fun.
bishopcorrigan(@bishopcorrigan)
The colors on the brick are so ass, fit on the pieces is fine to too slim, and the proportions are boring to bad. Took me a minute to figure out something that was passable and still had continuity, mostly because I don’t own much red and it really is a bad choice for a base layer/overshirt/jacket setup. I probably wouldn’t go for the new fit in another circumstance but I think it’s a solid flip attempt
narwhal(@narwhalspal)
Sometimes in life we make mistakes. We learn to accept them and move on. We forgive ourselves. But some mistakes are so egregious and so tragic, that they must be remedied, not for the benefit of others, but to exorcise the demons that have come to haunt our every moment, making life a waking nightmare, full of glowering shadows and weird smells. Here’s an outfit I tried to make better. At the time, the pants seemed pretty loose, but I think they’re off balance. Logically, I took it to the other extreme. I don’t know what happened to the sequoia tee and, honestly, I don’t know where I got it or if I ever really had it. Finally, I added a cap, because I read that the demons may try to re-enter through the scalp. Keen eyes will observe that my Companion Chair has changed and the snake plant is drooping from being overwatered. Another mistake.
chase_vv(@chase_vv)
first pic from six years ago, second one from today. Same basic elements. Brooks bros OCBD, Jeans, Paraboots. Main improvement is now my face isn't blurry. And my hair has grown out. I now use bags to carry stuff and I like hats now bc hats are cool. OCBD is solid blue slim fit (cringe) and I hemmed it to MFA standard mid-fly which I now regret. I actually only just donated that shirt a couple weeks ago it's just been sitting at the back of my closet "just in case". The new one is striped, beefier feeling, and a longer more relaxed fit. Jeans were N&F double indigo and also p slim (cringe). And suuuper dark and unfaded. I'm glad I've since learned that fading my own jeans is never going to happen and now I just steal the fades of others at the thrift store. New jeans are old 505's from the bins and nice and wide which supports the paraboots much better. That first pic was around the time i found the paraboots and i feel like i just didn't know what to do with them yet which is why i consider the first one a brick despite it's relative inoffensive-ness.
TGO(@.tgo)
The first one is a botched but decent idea. What I was going for, was an oversized sweatshirt with the underlayer peaking through and sweatpants with sneakers. Where I went wrong was that the sweatshirt wasn't oversized, the underlayer was closer in color to the sweatpants and it looks sloppy and the sweatpants were.. well, very slim. The sneakers are ultraboosts which is a whole nightmare in itself. The second one, imo, achieves what I'm going for - better sweatshirt (entirestudios), better underlater, better sweatpants (braindead) and better sneakers. Proportions work better too
jimi(@e30ultra)
2019 vs today. in the original fit i was just doing WAYYY too much. the beige rafs didn't work with the white shirt. the jacket was wack. pinstriped pants with a loud shirt was wack. for the redo, i just dialed everything back and let the shirt do all the work
s0up(@s0up2715)
Nowhere near the standard of the outfits already posted but I'll get involved. This outfit is probably quite dated in terms of larger/wider fits but I've only recently started actually paying attention to what I wear and started moving towards pants/jeans that aren't simply whatever I can find that fit in TK Maxx.
The left are clothes I grabbed on the way to work but realised that I didn't like the black shoes & black band tee with the jeans and flannel. Too much dark colours I think. Swapped the band shirt for a plain white tee and the black vans for some beige. Much happier with how this looks as an outfit now.
charlie(@divineeprovidence)
Dug up this pic from 2017! And I cannot stress this enough: the outfit on the left is not a work uniform. I just looked like that. Aside from the fact that wearing a baseball cap and jacket in matching colors makes you look like you just clocked in at the pizza mines, the racing stripe, choker, Nike lows, and stretch distressed jeggings are so dated to the "Instagram baddie" era of teen fashion. I got rid of all of the original items a long time ago, so I tried to interpret them as best I could with my current wardrobe (red baseball cap, red jacket, distressed jeans, black (p)leather shoes). This is 100% an outfit I would wear in my current day-to-day life, and although it will probably look similarly dated in six years, I don't think it'll induce the same level of embarrassment.
TheThrill(@7samimk)
This jacket was one of my first EG pieces back in 2019 and I figured since it is a relatively subtle EG piece that I could just incorporate it in with some workwear type stuff i already have in my wardrobe. While I don't think that idea is totally off base, i think the execution here was poor. In particular, the color scheme, the chino fit, the proportions, and the shoe choice all could be better.
I think the new fit improves upon the orignal in all these areas.
color: The original chinos were very dark olive and a lighter shirt would have been a nice contrast.
fit: replaced the slim chinos for a pair of looser fatigues.
proportion: the base layer was too close to the hemline of the jacket. i added an EG shirt here to get some of that reverse layering.
Shoes: i these alden boots were a little too smart for this outfit, a chunkier shoe/boot would have been better. i also don't like this specific tan and olive combo for some reason. Think these chucks fit in much better. also considered some chunky EG x sebagos or paraboots.
raisin(@raisinpie)
This fit was from 2018 or 2019. I had to do this one because the Forever 21 bomber was my first ever Grailed purchase! Back then I was really into r/streetwear and contrasting jackets over monochrome fits. Super high cuffs to show off statement socks was also a thing. It's really bad. For one thing, the fit wasn't cool enough on its own for the contrasting jacket to work. I still have the jacket, so I just swapped the other pieces for more on trend fit and styling. I don't think the red bomber + blue jeans combo works on anybody though, it's a tough pairing. I know I'll keep that jacket forever for nostalgia
fauxhemian(@fauxhemian)
I am not sure I'm yet at a point where I could take a brick and not just turn it 360 into another one, but here it goes. I have several chambray/denim bricks, so it seems like a fitting (no pun) place to start. The OG photo is mid/late 2010s and I was wearing things at the time on the slimmer side, sort of following the advice/trends of the time. My wardrobe has slowly changed into having similar pieces that I feel have a better fit with my body type, and are more comfortable/less restricting.
For the shirt I went unbuttoned and with a white tee under, to at least have a mid level of interest in the fit with the layering.
The jeans, besides the comfort aspect, I left unrolled as the OG definitely has some weird PSI (a term I learnt of here in the last few days).
Shoes are a 1:1 swap of my dailys from then to now.
…and the top 3 flipped bricks as voted by MFA
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